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I can easily cast movies from my Android phone with Kodi to my tv dongle. Although it works I find this to be inconvenient because when my phone battery is low I plug it in to charge in a different room.

What I'd like is to be able to cast from my PC running Kodi and BubbleUPNP server. I think I'm missing some knowledge though. All of the guides I found while searching refer to using Android phone in some way.

For hardware I have a decent Linux PC with Kodi installed as well as BubbleUPNP server. BubbleUPNP server detects Kodi as a Media Server and a Media Renderer. Great! Now what?

There is a section in the docs about OpenHome renderers but I don't really understand it.

Is there a way to cast from my pc to the dongle without an intermediary Android phone?

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John the Ripper
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If your add-on has the ability to save to file while you watch, you can run this suite of python scripts on the result. https://github.com/Pat-Carter/stream2chromecast

Or if you setup an apache server (or expose it via another URL provider of some sort (lighttpd, python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8080, etc,etc ) to your cache directory, and plop this set of html examples into it as well, you can stream almost instantly. https://github.com/vickyg3/UrlPlayer

*I'm currently working on a native Kodi solution myself, but it's going to take a bit to figure out the ins and outs and migrate the Pat-Carter's python code into an addon/script. If you're techy savvy, this might be fairly easy to do.

For now, I personally use SMPlayer. (http://www.smplayer.info/en/downloads) while not a near enough kodi solution, it's how I found out about UrlPlayer. (may the stack and format gods not hurt me too badly? I'm still relatively new to answering.)

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